Unfortunately many of the apps needed just to exist as a member of society are only available in the Play Store.
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Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 3 months agoF-Droid is a decent replacement for the play store. Lots of FOSS and less-enshittified apps available.
Ulrich@feddit.org 3 months ago
OhVenus_Baby@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
Aurora store front end works fine no Google account needed.
Ulrich@feddit.org 3 months ago
Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn’t. And even when it does, it still requires Google’s spyware to be installed on your device.
OhVenus_Baby@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
Only certain apps require play services, aurora store itself requires no play services. Just the potential for the apps you are trying to use. I’ve used F-Droid and aurora for years.
chaosCruiser@futurology.today 3 months ago
Tried to rely fully on F-droid several years ago. That experiment went just fine until I needed up update the apps. Turns out, there wasn’t a simple one button solution to that. I had to manually update each and every app one by one. Is it any better these days?
TonyOstrich@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Unattended updates for everyone, 1.19 is here f-droid.org/2024/02/01/twif.html
chaosCruiser@futurology.today 3 months ago
That happened in 2024? About time! Sounds like F-droid is actually becoming viable.
TonyOstrich@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I could be completely wrong as it’s outside of my areas of competency, but my understanding is that the functionality was harder to achieve because of some technical reason due in part to Google/Alphabet fuckery. So another day ending in “y”.
Routhinator@startrek.website 3 months ago
Try the Droidify app. I find it better than the main FDroid app.